College Fails to Protect African-American Women From Divorce ...

By Janice Wood Associate News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on March 10, 2013

Married couples who have attained higher levels of education are less likely to divorce than less-educated couples ? except in the African-American community, according to new research.

?African-American women don?t seem to enjoy the same degree of protection that education confers on marriage,? said Jeounghee Kim, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Rutgers School of Social Work.

?For white Americans, higher education is related to a lower chance of divorce, and this protective effect of education on marriage increased consistently among the recent generations. But for African-American women, higher education is not necessarily related to a lower chance of divorce.?

In her study, published in the journal Family Relations, Kim observed that while the divorce rate has remained steady for white women since 1980, the trend has been less stable for African-American women.

She studied white and African-American women in five-year marriage cohorts starting from 1975 to 1979 and ending in 1995 to 1999. The researcher also took into account demographic characteristics, such as age, geographic region, motherhood status and post-secondary education (associate degree at minimum) when married.

She then measured marital dissolution (within nine years of first marriage) rather than by legal divorce, which many African-American women eschew in favor of a permanent separation.

Kim?s analysis revealed that the percentage of white women with some post-secondary education continuously increased throughout the cohorts. This was not the case with African-American women, whose educational attainment peaked in the 1985-1994 cohorts before declining.

At the same time, she found the percentage of white women getting divorced declined throughout the study period, while African-American women experienced an increase in the 1980s before declining in the 1990 to 1994 cohort.

Kim said her findings were consistent with much existing literature that says that women with higher levels of education ? and greater earning potential ? make more attractive marriage partners. Also, their marriages tend to last longer than those of their counterparts ? particularly among white women ? with less education.

But the research also raises questions about why African-American women?s higher education does not have a strong protective effect on marriage.

?One possibility is that college education does not translate into the higher earnings that would help protect marriage for African-Americans,? she said. ?Another could be that educational attainment may be insufficient to address the high levels of economic inequality that even well-educated African-Americans experience. Many are the first in their families to have attained a post-secondary education and do not benefit from the cushion of intergenerational wealth possessed by some white families.?

A third possibility involves the gender gap in African-Americans? educational attainment ? there are nearly twice as many African-American women college graduates as men.

?We see the increasing power of education protecting marriage within the same socioeconomic class,? Kim said. ?Well-educated white women may still have power to select an equally well-educated mate. Then, there may be a synergy factor ? higher incomes, better and healthier lives, smarter kids ? that helps sustain their marriage.

?On the other hand, the return on higher education may not be the same for many African-American women, who have less chance to marry their educational equals,? she continues. ?Also, because they are less likely to marry outside their race, their choices are limited.?

Source: Rutgers

Couple disagreeing photo by shutterstock.

APA Reference
Wood, J. (2013). College Fails to Protect African-American Women From Divorce. Psych Central. Retrieved on March 11, 2013, from http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/03/10/college-fails-to-protect-african-american-women-from-divorce/52397.html

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Source: http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/03/10/college-fails-to-protect-african-american-women-from-divorce/52397.html

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Israeli kids hurt by teachers' name-calling

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Students at an Israeli high school were in an uproar on Monday after a teacher mistakenly sent them an internal email that spelled out what faculty members really thought about them.

"Not too bright", "Liar", "Tactless", "Big Baby", "Anti-social", "Has a thing for boys" and "Sick-o" were some of the descriptions on an Excel spreadsheet that landed in students' email boxes.

Protesting outside the Yitzhak Rabin High School in Kfar Saba, a town north of Tel Aviv, students pinned some of those descriptions on their shirts and demanded an apology, which its principal made.

"We will draw conclusions about our behavior and the way we express ourselves," the principal, Ruth Lazar, was quoted as saying by the YNet news site.

The list, which also contained praise for a number of students, was compiled by teachers as a guide to potential misbehavior by the teens due to take part in a school visit to Holocaust sites in Poland, a trip that has become a rite of passage for many Israeli youngsters.

One of the teachers inadvertently copied the list to students who signed up for the trip, the school said.

(Reporting by Jeffrey Heller; Editing by Jon Hemming)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-kids-hurt-teachers-name-calling-163159187.html

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Spanish Seafood Salad - Food Idealist

Canned squid, mussels, and baby eels don?t tend to be the most appetizing list of items to a regular american household. I know I was reluctant to work with them as well even though we were in Barcelona for a holiday vacation, and they specialize in canned seafood. I am now convinced that the Spaniards are definitely onto something as long as you get the best stuff, see Mr. Bourdain on the goods ? ?Bourdain in Spain

The food below is now attainable for a US consumer through a multitude of Spanish importers online, but as always, food tastes better on vacation, and especially when you?re getting it in the country of origin. This was luckily the case for the Spanish seafood salad described in the recipe below.

My family was fortunate enough to spend the holidays in Barcelona, Spain this past winter, and as a food obsessed family we took full advantage of the surroundings. While we did have a functioning kitchen in the flat where we stayed (shameless plug for www.airbnb.com for the awesome digs), we were out on the town, eating as many plates of food as possible. If it sounded good, we were on it, tapas galore and churros du jour. Please ignore the incorrect use of du jour and just enjoy the rhyme!

One of the items my brother and I were dying to try was the famed seafood. While my brother was more focused on gourmet canned seafood, I was bit more obsessed with tracking down as much grilled octopus as I could find. When done well, octopus may be my favorite protein. After scouring multiple food meccas throughout the city, we finally settled on a small shop that kept busy at El Mercat de la Boqueria, the primary food market in Barcelona?s city center. I?ve always found the true vital sign of good food establishments throughout the world is based on the flow of locals, and we followed that same creed here.

My brother and I conjured up our Castilian Spanish from childhood, tried to pass it off on our Catalonian merchant, and we did our best to extract recommendations for ?la mejor peces en la caja? translation?.?the best seafood in a box?. Luckily she knew what we were talking about.

This wonderful woman also had octopus cooked, tenderized, and vacuum sealed ready to go. Octopus is typically served in Spain ?a la Gallego? as Galicia is the province most known for its octopus dishes. You?ll see this in most Spanish restaurants with a drizzle of olive oil (Spanish of course, the Italians don?t know oil) and sprinkling of smoked paprika (Spanish of course, the Hungarian is no match), I joke but you get the idea

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To highlight these wonderful items, we tried to let them speak for themselves, so we combined a mix of fresh frisee and butter lettuce and quick pickled onions to accompany the seafood. We marinated the octopus then torched the tentacles in the fire of the stove. While I would not?recommend?putting a dish like this together with your regular supermarket canned fare, with some?research?and easy leaps of faith on some Spanish import websites (www.latienda.com and www.despanabrandfoods.com) you can get these wonderful ingredients ready in your pantry until you want to try a fresh (canned) seafood salad.I know it seems crazy, but the food tasted amazing and wonderfully fresh even from the can. Pop a bottle of bubbly Spanish cava and you just may transport yourself over to Barcelona at least for a night!

Please enjoy!

Makes 8 servings:

• 6 cups of frisee (can be from anywhere)
• 6 cups of butter lettuce (can be from anywhere)
• 2 cans of Spanish mussels
• 2 cans of Spanish baby squids
• 1 jar of Spanish baby eels
• 12 oz of prepared Spanish octopus
• 2 T Spanish Olive Oil
• 1 T Spanish Paprika

1. Grill or char octopus for 2-3 minutes per side or until slight crispiness forms on suction cups on tentacles
2. Thinly slice octopus and mix with olive oil and paprika. Add salt and pepper to taste if necessary.
3. Wash and tear frisee and butter lettuce and mix together. Season greens with small amount of salt and pepper.
4. Place greens on middle of plate, and then proceed to evenly serve mussels, squid, eels, and octopus amongst plates.?
5. Pop some cava, and enjoy!?

Source: http://foodidealist.com/spanish-seafood-salad/

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Skull cracked? Print a new one

Devin Coldewey , NBC News ? ? ? 12 hrs.

A patient with a damaged skull has undergone a radical new treatment: having 75 percent of his damaged skull replaced with a 3-D printed prosthetic. It's the first time such a skull replacement has been used.

The recipient of the historic skull plate is being kept anonymous, but was one of the hundreds of people each month in the U.S. alone who suffer serious damage to their skull ? serious, that is, but not irreparable.

For smaller plates, a piece of premade metal or plastic will serve, but for replacing larger portions of the skull (needless to say, the patient's 75 percent is at the high end), something more custom needed to be devised. Oxford Performance Materials specializes in this.

By scanning the skull of the patient and printing a custom skull using a proprietary body-friendly polymer, the company's team can create a prosthetic within two weeks that is perfectly fitted to the contours of the patient's brain and bone.

The process was only just approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Feb. 18, and the first operation took place this week.

No pictures of the actual patient with his new skull were made available, both to preserve his privacy and because such a photo would likely be quite gruesome such a short time after major surgery. The photo above, however, does show how the material would look before implanting.

Now that OsteoFab prosthetics, as they are called, are approved, OPM hopes to expand into other areas ? of both the world and the body. "We see no part of the orthopedic industry being untouched by this," OPM's president, Scott De Felice, told TechNewsDaily.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/skull-cracked-print-new-one-1C8780228

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Why Don't We Have Space Elevators?

Why fly a rocket into orbit when you can just hop in an elevator? Since it served as the focal point for Arthur C. Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise in 1979, the concept of a space elevator? has permeated both sci-fi culture and futurists' plans for space exploration.

Basically, a space elevator would consist of a long cable extending from the surface of the planet about 22,000 miles up into geosynchronous orbit, where the end-point would move in sync with the planet's rotation and stay above the same point on the surface at all times. Compared to using rockets, space elevators would make carrying huge loads of cargo? and passengers a breeze. It's a much more feasible plan for leaving the star system and makes space colonization a serious possibility.

Unlike some sci-fi technologies that exist but are wildly expensive or impractical for widespread use, such as the jetpack, the space elevator isn't close to reality. But why?

The biggest problem is finding a material strong enough to serve as the elevator's cable. Carbon nanotubes, the most commonly proposed solution, aren't stable enough when used in such great lengths. Keith Henson, engineer and co-founder of the National Space Society, told io9 in an interview that the hexagonal bonds that make carbon nanotubes so strong would come apart like "a run in a lady's stocking" if laid out for even a fraction of the distance needed. So far, scientists have only produced carbon nanotubes a few inches long and one nanometer wide.

"Carbon nanotubes have a few basic problems," admits Michael Laine, founder of would-be elevator builder LiftPort. "So you don't just need one breakthrough?you need six."

In 2002, when writing a proposal to NASA for a space elevator, Laine and his group predicted that carbon nanotubes would be ready for use in two to three years. Nanotubes had existed for only about a decade at that point; Laine says he now realizes his team didn't know enough about the material to make accurate predictions about how quickly it would advance. But he's still optimistic; today Laine says they were a few decades away at most.

Because of their potential to replace silicon in computer chips, carbon nanotubes have attracted the attention (and funding) of computer companies around the globe. Those companies are investigating the electrical properties of nanotubes?not the mechanical properties that interest Laine?but he says all the attention by large companies will help to solve the issues of mass producing nanotubes.

In the meantime, LiftPort is working on building a moon-based space elevator. "It's an essential stepping stone," Laine says, "and we have all the parts." The lower gravity of the moon, as well as the absence of wind and ice, mean that a space elevator cable doesn't need to be nearly as strong?. Kevlar is a strong candidate, though it would need some kind of coating to protect it from UV degradation. Laine says a relatively strong man standing on the moon could hold the system in place.

LiftPort wants to put an elevator on the moon by the end of the decade, and an extremely successful Kickstarter campaign over the summer has started them on their way.

As for an earth-based space elevator, it all hinges on carbon nanotube development, and current research prioritizes their use in cell phones over their ability to haul space cargo. But it's not an impossible goal, and there's always the chance of a dark horse overtaking carbon nanotubes as our dream material.

Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/nasa/why-dont-we-have-space-elevators-15185070?src=rss

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BB: Legal Tampering, Dashon Goldson, George Iloka - Cincy Jungle

We open the morning bacon with some mailbag questions, including the new legal three-day tampering rule.

+ Let's open with a mailbag and some questions.

When does the new three-day grace period for free agency start? - Twitter

For those of you unaware, there is a new free agency lead-in period that allows teams to negotiate with soon-to-be free agents three days prior to the start of the new league year. Previously this would have been defined as tampering, but we suspect since the league turned a blind eye anyway while some media belly-ached about it, the NFL said, fine we'll just allow it during a shorten period right before free agency.

Starting March 9, club representatives are allowed to speak with agents about the players they represent, even enter contract negotiations. For example other teams may negotiate with Andre Smith's agent or any unrestricted free agent. Just keep in mind that nothing can be finalized until March 12 at 4 PM (ET).

Here are a couple of other notes:

• Teams can only contact and speak to certified agents and not the players.
• If a player doesn't have an agent, then he can't negotiate with other teams until the new league year.
• No visits are allowed until after free agency starts.
• This only applies to unrestricted free agents -- not restricted free agents and franchise players.

Expect rumors to be fairly rampant.

What's George's standing? There's a lot of talk about drafting a safety, a position in which the Bengals are definitely lacking. Does Iloka have a chance to fill that void? -Matt

Iloka was active in seven games during his rookie campaign, two of which included special teams contributions -- he led the team with two special teams tackles against the Cleveland Browns on September 16. However he didn't without a recorded defensive snap.

If the Bengals use their first round selection to draft a safety, it's because they don't feel a better option exists on the roster and that the need has thus become that dire. Equally so if they crack open the piggy bank for an experience veteran like Dashon Goldson, who would make sense in Mike Zimmer's defense and has a history of all-star success.

Though by no means demeaning to anyone, I believe the best way for Iloka and Tony Dye to make the 2013 roster will be through special teams.

Do you really think that the Cincinnati Bengals have a chance to sign Goldson? - Twitter

Sure. Even 0.000001 percent could techically be defined as a "chance". Will they attempt to sign Goldson? Well that's an entirely different question with a more predictable reaction. And despite the arguments in the comments boiling down to what he's worth, our thought-process goes here.

Even if the Bengals fail to sign Andre Smith, we don't think Cincinnati will react with a signfiicant free agent signing at either position. The Bengals have defined most of their roster building through the draft. Smith, Geno Atkins, Carlos Dunlap, Leon Hall, Andrew Whitworth, A.J. Green, all acquired through the NFL draft. And that doesn't include starters signed as undrafted free agents.

Just because the Bengals have over $40 million available under the salary cap, it doesn't mean they're going to rapidly change their philosolphy away from acquiring their best talent through the NFL draft. To me Atkins and Green are the must-sign players on this roster; everyone else, including Smith, is replaceable. However don't read into that statement as supporting the departure of their best players during free agency. Have to keep and sign their best players so that the NFL draft isn't being used to replace your own.

+ Using the Scout, Inc. grades (where do these grades come from?), ESPN ranks Rey Maualuga as ninth-best unrestricted free agent with franchise players excluded. Ninth! Their ranking comes with analysis:

Maualuga is a big, strong and athletic linebacker who is best as a run defender. He is an instinctive linebacker and plays with great run fits to the line of scrimmage. He uses active hands in block protection to get to the ball. He is somewhat limited as a pass defender but is effective in combination zone coverages. He is a physical presence and sets the tone defensively. The Cincinnati defense is built around him.

Without using four-letter words that earns a piercing stare from Sister Jude Martin (anyone?), what's your conclusion on Scouts, Inc. conclusion on Rey Maualuga?

+ Driving down the road listening to ESPN 1530, you hear a sports update from NBC Sports Radio Updates. You're thinking, huh? Jim Kiesewetter with the Cincinnati Enquirer learned:

Here?s what I found out: The "NBC Sports Radio Updates" are part of Clear Channel Cincinnati?s agreement with Dial Global Sports, which provides ESPN WCKY-AM (1530) with the NCAA basketball tournament and NFL games

+ Mocking the Draft released their linebacker rankings heading into the 2013 NFL draft.

+ Steven Godfrey writes a long-form story on Bobby Petrino, which is a good read. Though we're fairly confident Mike Zimmer, reading this right now, has no intension on clicking this link.

+ For those of you hoping that the Cincinnati Bengals make a serious run for wide receiver Mike Wallace, he's already developing a list of suitors, including the Tennessee Titans, Miami Dolphins and Minnesota Vikings. Poor ol' Jerome.

+ The Cleveland Clinic and the University of Rochester released findings from a study that concluded even non-concussive hits can still lead to long-term brain damage.

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Source: http://www.cincyjungle.com/2013/3/7/4072172/bb-legal-tampering-dashon-goldson-george-iloka

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Breanna Steer Possesses "Flaws & All" on American Idol

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2013/03/breanna-steer-possesses-flaws-and-all-on-american-idol/

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